Friday July 10th, 2026
« Do not give the Devil a chance to hurt you like that »
1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us.
2 We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, the champion who initiates and perfects our faith. Because of the joy awaiting him, He endured the cross, disregarding its shame. Now He is seated in the place of honor beside God’s throne.
3 Think of all the hostility He endured from sinful people; then you won’t become weary and give up.
4 After all, you have not yet given your lives in your struggle against sin.
5 And have you forgotten the encouraging words God spoke to you as His children? He said, “My child, don’t make light of the Lord’s discipline, and don’t give up when He corrects you.
6 For the Lord disciplines those He loves, and He punishes each one He accepts as His child.”
7 As you endure this divine discipline, remember that God is treating you as His own children. Who ever heard of a child who is never disciplined by its father?
8 If God doesn’t discipline you as He does all of his children, it means that you are illegitimate and are not really his children at all.
When you want to fight a champion in a boxing match, the first thing you want to know is if he has been wounded before.
If he has, you can hit him on that spot to get the upper hand in the match.
- When the devil wants to bring down a champion, he looks for the greatest weakness in the person’s life and keeps aiming at it until the champion falls.
This is why you must not allow any weakness in your life, because the devil will capitalize on it.
- You must destroy the weakness before it destroys you.
A hunter went hunting and killed a big leopard. He also saw a baby leopard and decided to take it back to the village because it looked harmless. The little leopard began to grow, playing with children in the village, and the hunter’s son was its best friend. Years later, the leopard had the hunter’s son riding on its back towards the village stream. The boy fell and bruised his leg on the ground. The leopard, wanting to help his friend, licked the blood on the boy’s leg. The taste of the blood drove the leopard to eat the boy up.
Beloved, if you don’t kill that little leopard in your life, it will kill you.
That little contamination – that little anger or lust would later kill you, if you don’t kill it now. Song of Solomon 2:15NASB
« “Catch the foxes for us, The little foxes that are ruining the vineyards, while our vineyards are in blossom.” »
It doesn’t matter how many good virtues you have or how strong you are in the Spirit; if there is just one weakness, it can destroy you completely.
A little contamination destroys purity.
Hebrews 12:1 says that you should lay aside that sin which easily besets you so that you can run the Christian race successfully.
This race is a marathon.
In marathons, carrying the smallest weight can cause you to fail.
Once the devil sees you carrying that weakness around, he knows he now has a joker card to use in bringing you down later.
Don’t give him that joker card, kill the weakness immediately.
Application – The smallest of weaknesses in your life can stop you from making heaven. Kill that weakness now.
Author – Bishop Enoch Adejare Adeboye; General Overseer of the RCCG
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